John Mica: Harry Reid ‘intimidation’ on probe

Rep. John Mica on Wednesday accused Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid of trying to “intimidate” him into halting an investigation into the General Services Administration wild spending for a 2010 conference in Las Vegas.

“Trying to intimidate me to stop the investigation won’t work,” Mica, a Florida Republican and Transportation and Infrastructure chairman, said on Fox News when asked about Reid’s comments jabbing him for spotlighting the GSA scandal earlier this month.

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“This isn’t about taking a trip to Las Vegas, which he represents, people can do that and have a great time, enjoy it at their own expense but this is wasteful spending,” Mica said. “I know he’s not happy I stopped some $3720 per airline ticket subsidy from one of his airports so I know I’m not his best friend but I’m not gonna be intimidated.”

Mica’s committee, along with the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, held hearings about GSA this week and the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee has scheduled its own hearing for Wednesday.

Reid, a Nevada Democrat, told reporters that Republicans were trying to “embarrass Las Vegas” because of GSA’s 2010 spending spree and he single out Mica for trying to grab the spotlight after the House transportation bill became an embarrassment to the GOP.

“First of all, Mica, who is doing this, should get a life and do what he’s supposed to do,” Reid told reporters when asked about potential fallout, according to the Las Vegas Review-Journal. “It’s because of him that the transportation bill is a total failure.”

“Mica has been an absolute flop at leading that committee,” Reid said in early April. “Mica, I repeat, should get a life and do what he’s supposed to do and get a highway bill out of the Congress to save or create 2.8 million jobs.”

Reid also said the GSA used “no common sense” by spending so much at the conference but that Republicans were actin out of political motivations.

"Reid said in early April. “Mica, I repeat, should get a life and do what he’s supposed to do and get a highway bill out of the Congress to save or create 2.8 million jobs."

How interesting to hear Harry Reid lecture others on doing their jobs when he absolute refuses to bring a budget to the Senate floor for a vote and has now intimidated Dem Senator Conrad into backing off budget debate. (see related article at POLITICO). Our country would be in better shape if Harry would do his job, but he's more interested in the party than the country.

You know things are bad when the Dems are pulling THAT back out of the hat. Nevermind that the economy is a train wreck and that on top of it all, we now have $5,000,000,000,000.00 MORE that we owe, it WOULD HAVE BEEN EVEN WORSE if obama hadn't done whatever it is that he did.

This old dufus spent two years giving America and the Constitution the "middle finger salute." 100% of demo-crats backed and supported the Reid, Obama, Pelosi attack on individual freedoms while the economy an jobs tanked without one positive thing being done to save us. Now this dufus is showing how out of touch the extreme radical demo-crat party is with America. How many jobs could have been created with $820,000 being used to promote the American economy rather than "partying down" by the demo-crat controlled GSA. This old RICH DEMOCRAT DUFUS should be ashamed of himself but then again the extreme radical demo-crat party has no shame for trying to destroy us.

Reid, a Nevada Democrat, told reporters that Republicans were trying to “embarrass Las Vegas” because of GSA’s 2010 spending spree and he single out Mica for trying to grab the spotlight after the House transportation bill became an embarrassment to the GOP.

Senator Reid has shown more outrage to Rep. Mica, who simply is trying to find out why a Government agency is spending Tax-payer money like drunken sailors, than he did to President Obama whose crass comment that 'businesses should not just go to Las Vegas', single-handedly chased Millions and Millions of convention dollars out of the Las Vegas economy; essentially turning Las Vegas from "the recession proof economy" to the ruins of Detroit, OVERNIGHT! Harry Reid is a partisan hack, no friend of the State he pretends to represent and IMO the WORST SENATE MAJORITY LEADER.... EVER!!!

"...Mica, a Florida Republican and Transportation and Infrastructure chairman..."

What does the Transportation and Infrastructure Committee have to do with the GSA? The Oversight and Government Reform Committee is already looking into the matter. Why should the US tax payer have to pony up for 2 concurrent investigations from the House into the same event? As much as Sen Reid has been abysmal, it looks more like Rep. Mica is grandstanding, and Sen. Reid may have hit the nail on the head when telling Rep. Mica to do his job.

If we don't get on politician's back about what we want done in Washington this partisan bickering is never going anywhere. They need pressure from constituents. People DO want to know what the heck is up with GSA spending. People do want government to get spending under control.

I know the left is going to keep mocking the right even though the left presents no good options, but seriously, they need to look at where we're headed as a country. We are awaiting a debt implosion. Already we've been downgraded. Already Obama has added over $5T in three years, our $15.5T deficit exceeds the entire GDP, and debt per capita exceeds that of Greece. The federal budget increases by 10% automatically each year, since the 1974 Budget Reform Bill allowed it, taking us away from baseline budgeting. This is regardless of revenue, regardless of federal necessity. No wonder the federal government spends $3T annually instead of $2T as in the budget! Even $2T is excessive. There isn't enough money to tax in the entire COUNTRY to make a dent in this deficit. Even taxing at 100% (which would shut down the economy with finality with no money left over to keep businesses going). We need serious reforms such as the GOP presents. And we need them now. Wise Democrats will jump on board if they hope to remain a party with any chance of prominence. Just because liberal media lies and ignores and mocks the truth doesn't make it any less true. We are doomed, and soon, unless we tackle the spending and deficit.

We need serious spending reform including serious program reforms rather than economically-calamitous tax increases, and a return to baseline budgeting in Washington to tackle this problem before it's too late and the debt implodes our country. At which point there will be no benefits to hand out. So far I only see (part of) the GOP willing to make these necessary adjustments. The Dems seem to be happy running off a steep cliff with eyes wide open while expecting to keep running at the bottom of it, with Obama proudly in the lead.

Harry should first get a budget onto the floor before he gives an advise to someone else. He is the flop in the Senate not Mica. .... Obama is the guy who tried to destroy Las Vegas and Harry is supporting Obama

Man, I don't think Reid is doing Obama any favors with this. Vote for Democrats, who obstruct hearings on government waste! And who tell the opposition to get a life, this same Congress that had hearings about major league baseball!?!?!?

Las Vegas is embarassed down to every citizen. Right. What's he smokin?

Oh, harry, harry, harry. What an embarrassment to your state and our government.

Remember ole' harry getting his knickers in a bunch over this comment by obama? "You don’t blow a bunch of cash on Vegas when you’re trying to save for college. You prioritise. You make tough choices.”

Old harry got indignant and obama apologized over the furor. Hahahahahahahahahaha